Sellafield Ltd Awards £4.6 Billion Hazard Reduction Contracts For UK Nuclear Site

Total cost of cleaning up legacy site in northwest England could reach £136bn

Sellafield Ltd Awards £4.6 Billion Hazard Reduction Contracts For UK Nuclear Site
The Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, northwest England. Courtesy Sellafield Ltd.

Sellafield Ltd has awarded work with a maximum value of £4.6bn (€5.2bn, $6bn) to four companies that will support high hazard risk reduction programmes on the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, northwest England.

The work was awarded through the Decommissioning and Nuclear Waste Partnership (DNWP), a 15-year initiative to support activities related to retrieving waste materials from the Sellafield site’s oldest facilities as well as treating and storing those materials and decommissioning redundant assets.

The companies that won contracts are A2R, Amentum, The Decommissioning Alliance and Nuclear Decommissioning Solutions.

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